Weem 5 Description of stone
Event ID 1012867
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Early Medieval Carved Stones Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1012867
Weem 5 (St Cuthbert), Perthshire, cross-base
Measurements: L 0.66m, W 0.50m, D c 0.20m
Stone type: sandstone
Place of discovery: NN 8429 4979
Present location: built into the west wall of a lean-to extension to the north loft of Weem Old Kirk. This extension appears to be subsequent to the alterations of 1753.
Evidence for discovery: none.
Present condition: weathered, and the socket has been modified in order to make it into a monolithic window.
Description
This is a plain squarish block with a rectangular socket, 0.24m by 0.08m. The socket has been deepened through the stone and its sides splayed, in order to make it into a monolithic window. There are glazing grooves just within the outer face of the opening, which Gifford dates to the seventeenth century (2007, 742), which suggests that its present location may be the second time that the stone has been re-used as a window.
Date: early medieval and later.
References: Gifford 2007, 742.
Compiled by A Ritchie 2016
